What a difference a day makes – I brought my power cord with me so I had juice in my laptop and was able to tweet with a frequency that would ordinarily have concerned me – I try not to normally overwhelm my followers – but there was so much information to share and so many mindblowingly insightful tweets to retweet that I am temporarily justified. #asist09<\/p>\n
I went to many sessions today and I think I found my favorite (so far) …\u00a0 Mike Crandell and Karen E. Fisher’s presentation “Free Access to Computers and the Internet at the Public Library”.\u00a0 From the iSchool (is your school) at UW, they did a fabulous presentation about the research they’ve done (also in book form<\/a>) and I hope that they develop a model to share with other libraries on how to identify the impacts of PACs (Public Access Computers) in their communities as I feel this would be a good tool to help us evangelize in these tough economic times.\u00a0 The early finding that they shared with us (on a difficult to read slide – fix please <grin>) were that the top domains of PAC use are social inclusion, education, employment, health & e-government which feels right to me as I observe the patrons in my rural library.\u00a0 I wish there was more research for public librarians (in general) at this conference …<\/p>\n